Fragrant orange cupcake for Christmas: a recipe for delicious homemade pastries

If you want to make something tasty but simple for tea, a cupcake is ideal. And for a bright flavor, you can add berries, zest, cocoa, and chocolate to the dough.

The cook shared a recipe for a delicious orange cake with protein icing on Instagram.

Ingredients:

• 150 g of soft butter
• 150 g of sugar
• 3 eggs
• 1 tbsp. of sour cream
• zest and juice of 1 orange
• 230 g of flour
• 8 g of baking powder
• candied fruit – optional

For the glaze:

• 1 egg white
• 150 g of powdered sugar
• 1 tbsp.of lemon juice

Method of preparation:

1. Beat the butter with eggs and sugar. Add flour, baking powder, candied fruit, zest, and sour cream.

2. Pour the dough into a greased baking dish and bake at 180 C for 45 minutes, then remove from the dish after it has cooled completely.

3. Frosting: beat the egg whites. Mix the powdered sugar with lemon juice and add to the whites, mix and pour over the cupcake.